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20 Cards in this Set
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Irony
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Contrast between expectation and reality
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Chronology
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time
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Chronological Order
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time order
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Biography
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Account of a person's life told by a different person
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AutoBiography
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Account of writer's own life
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Ambiguity
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element of uncertainty in a text
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Non-Fiction
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prose writing deals with real things
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Objective
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a goal, or unbiased facts
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Inference
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to interpret
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Flashback
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scene that interrupts current point in time to tell what happened in the past
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Genre
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category of work that literature is under
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FlashForward
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to shift into a futuristic time
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Omniscent
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all knowing
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Point of View
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vantage point at which an writer tells a story
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Short Story
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short fictional prose narrative
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Situational Irony
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describes event contrary to what we expected
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Subjective
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express your attitude of a subject
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Suspense
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suspicious
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Unreliable Narrator
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is biased and does not tell the truth
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Voice
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writer's distinctive use of language in a text
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